2 Senior Environmental Sustainability Advisor roles in Lincoln

What you'll be doing

• Influence early-stage design and planning to identify risks and opportunities that reduce carbon, waste, and biodiversity net loss, supporting Building New Futures commitments.


• Drive the implementation of project sustainability plans and Bridging the Gap actions, reporting progress to senior teams and contributing to strategic delivery.


• Manage complex environmental risks and opportunities, supporting project teams in developing and maintaining robust environmental and sustainability plans.


• Direct and support the preparation of consents, licences, and permits, ensuring legal and contractual compliance.


• Provide expert advice on environmental compliance, pollution control, waste, and ecology, ensuring alignment with ISO14001 and the Business Management System (BMS).


• Oversee project compliance performance, including inspections, audits, and reporting, and facilitate external audits by clients and certification bodies.


• Liaise with clients, regulators, and subcontractors to ensure effective delivery of environmental and sustainability outcomes.


• Lead investigations into environmental incidents, ensuring lessons are captured, shared, and embedded into continuous improvement.


• Deliver monthly environmental performance and compliance reporting to internal and client stakeholders, ensuring data integrity in the Sustainability Portal.


• Develop and deliver targeted training and education plans for project teams and contractors, embedding sustainability responsibilities and controls.


•  Contribute to strategic planning and / or governance activities 


• Liaise with regulators, clients, and external stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of sustainability and compliance objectives.

Who we're looking for

• Practical application of ISO 14001 including environmental risk and opportunity assessment and environmental controls.


• Advanced understanding of environmental legislation and management systems.


• Understanding of environmental impacts of construction and infrastructure activities.


• Detailed knowledge of sustainability KPIs and performance metrics.


• Registered Environmental Practitioner (REnvP) preferred.


• Understanding of the construction and / or infrastructure operating environment.


• Analysing environmental performance data to identify trends and inform improvement actions.


• Supporting external audits and certification processes.


• Degree in environmental / sustainability-related field preferred.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.


• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)


• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave


• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com